Random thoughts

It’s that time in my school career that I have to write a paper. In order to get a PhD, I have to write at least one paper that gets published in a scientific journal. For the past 3 years, I’ve been doing research, and it’s finally to a point that I have enough decent results that I’m ready to share it and hopefully get published. But… just like with studying, I’m procrastinating. I hate writing. I’m not creative. My grandmother was incredibly creative and would paint, make out random shapes from clouds (“look, there’s a dog!” me –> what???), and all sorts of other things to keep us entertained. However, that gene did NOT get passed to me. So I’m doing anything possible to keep from writing. By the way, I have a week and a half to get this finished.

A friend of mine talks about skinnyrunner on her blog. The skinnyrunner is a girl who runs like crazy then blogs about it, along with whatever she did that day. Like one day, she ran 8 miles with a friend. On her drive home, she saw a trail she wanted to run, so she did another 5 miles on that trail. When she got home, she did strength training then walked her dog another 2 miles. That afternoon, she did some other cardio. That would put me in the bed for weeks! Her blog links to another blog called “Shut up and run!”. This woman is even more psycho. She listed out her day as something like this -- 6am ran 12 miles, 9 am cooked breakfast, 12pm ate lunch, 2 pm ate dessert, 4pm strength training, 6pm run with dog. She obviously has no job. And I’m pretty sure that skinnyrunner doesn’t either. Or maybe they work from home?

So when are the rest of us supposed to do all of this to get in the crazy shape that these 2 are in? I don’t have the most hectic or stressful work schedule in the world, but I still can’t find the time just to workout enough to be healthy and not gain weight. And I definitely don’t cook enough to eat healthy :)

Today’s blog is nothing but avoiding the inevitable. Plus, we really haven’t done anything lately that would be of any entertainment value whatsoever to anyone else. Back to writing…